If there’s a metaphor for what’s going on within the walls of UAA’s theater department, a newborn might fit. What’s happening at UAA’s theater department is a massive changing of the guard. The legacy faculty who built the program, in fact, even built the UAA Fine Arts Building that opened in 1986, is now all gone.Kathleen McCoy

The regulations, if they survive the expected legal challenges, could shut down hundreds of coal-fired power plants and create a boom in the production of renewable energy.CORAL DAVENPORT and GARDINER HARRIS

On Saturday morning, seven recent college graduates took off from Anchorage for Tokyo, where they'll prepare to teach English in towns across Japan as part of the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program.Tegan Hanlon

Should salmonberries that carpet the tundra be packed into gallon Ziplocs for sale? What about salmon harvested under subsistence rules, not commercial ones? A debate is raging over the sale of traditional Alaska Native foods.Lisa Demer